Sanitary portable dressing-room.



S. & M. E. LAZARUS. SANITARY PORTABLE DRESSING ROOM.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1913.

Patented June 16,1914.

W gfffgiry UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL LAZARUS AND MAUDE ESTELLE LAZARUS', OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SANITARY PORTABLE DRESSING-ROOM.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL LAZARUS and MAUDE ESTELLE LAZARUS, citizensof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York,State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSanitary Portable Dressing- Rooms, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in dressing rooms particularly tothat class of dressing rooms which may readily be erected anddisassembled, placed in a suit-case or the like and carried from placeto place.

It is the main object of the present invention to provide a dressingroom of the character described which is to be used as a dressing roomat beaches or for tourists, and which is provided with a shower bath forremoving the scent, sand, etc., from the bather before dressing.

We provide also means for protecting garments of the bather from beingwetted dur ing the operation of the shower bath.

Our invention furthermore consists in the details of construction of thedressing room and its connected parts, and in their combination as moreparticularly hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of thisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures, and in which:

Figure 1 shows the skeleton frame of a dressing room according to thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the dressing roomwith part of the cover broken away so as to display the curtain dividingthe dressing room from the shower bath. Fig. 3 shows one of the uprightson an enlarged scale in collapsed position, and Fig. 4 shows one of thesupporting rods for the roof of the dressing room.

The skeleton frame for the dressing room comprises a plurality ofuprights 10, each consisting of telescopically arranged posts 11, 12 and13, which in their extended position are held in place, one within theother, by suitable set screws 14, 1 1. The roof of the skeleton framefor the dressing room comprises the rods 15 provided with a lower hookedend 16 with which they engage suit-, able sockets 17 upon the upper endof the upper parts 13 of the uprights. The upper ends of these rods 15are formed as rings Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 8, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 783,690.

18, and all of these rings when superposed form a passage for a securingbolt 19 provided with a head or knob 20 at its upper end, and carryingat its lower end, below the lowermost of the rings 18, a securing nut 21and a hook 22.

Between two of the uprights 10, an open cabinet 23, a mirrow 83 and abrush and comb 34c and 35 respectively, are suspended from the socket 17by means of strings 24..

Guy ropes 25 attached to the sockets and anchored with their outer freeends in the ground serve to hold the structure to the ground. Theskeleton frame thus provided may be covered by any suitable material ascommonly used in the construction of tents. Suitable hooks 26 areprovided at the sockcts for the suspension of garments, etc. To the hook22 is secured a water container 27 provided with a hose 28 carrying anozzle 29 at its outer free end, and a stop cock 30 serves to regulatethe flow of the water through said hose and nozzle. A curtain 31 issecured by means of hooks or the like 32 to one of the rods and two ofthe uprights for the purpose of keeping the water during the operationof the shower bath from wetting the garments suspended from the hooks26. The floor of the dressing room may be suitably covered by a carpetand a folding table or chair may be provided in order to add to thecomfort of the bather. From the foregoing it will be clear that thedressing room may be readily erected and collapsed and carried away in asuit-case or the like.

It is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the specificform of construction of the dressing room, and that changes may be madein its single parts without departing from the scope and spirit of ourinvention.

Having thus described our invention what we claim is:

l. A dressing room or tent, comprising in combination, telescopicaluprights, sockets formed on the upper section of said up rights, holdingmeans secured thereto, rods forming the support for the roof securedwith one of their ends to said sockets, and their other ends bent toform rings, a bolt passing through the rings formed by the ends of saidrods for holding the entire structure together, and provided at itslower end with a hook adapted to hold a shower bath, a cover for saidrods and side walls secured to said holding means, said holding meansadapted to suspend the garments of a bather, adjustably slidably mountedhooks .secured to adjacent rods are provided to hold a curtain therebydividing the tent or dressing-room into two compartments, substantiallyas described.

2. In a tent of the class described, comprising telescopical uprights,rods having their ends held together midway between said uprights, andthe other ends secured I thereto, hooks slidably adj'ustably mounted onadjacent rods, a cover for said rods and SAMUEL LAZARUS. MAUDE ESTELLELAZARUS.

Vitnesses ANTON BENESH, CHAS. V. Boron.

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Washington, D. 0.

